de-modularising for the win!

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Thu Oct 2 19:18:37 UTC 2008


On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:51:30 -0400
Kyle McMartin <kyle at mcmartin.ca> wrote:

> > 
> > I've got to agree, for ALSA who provide a turnkey package that lets people
> > test the latest drivers. Our users do compile that package and report back
> > whether it fixes their problems. We probably shouldn't build any sound drivers
> > in so they can keep doing that.
> > 
> 
> Heh, we come back to this again... Why can't we do a debug/nodebug style
> split for rawhide's built-in-ness? For release we do what's best for
> the silent (core sound modules built in, drivers not, since they're pigs.)
> majority...
> 

There will be complaints if we do anything that keeps people from building and
running ALSA on the released kernel.




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